Each year on April 15—Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday—the world pauses to recognize something timeless: art’s unparalleled ability to reflect, resist, and renew.

At .ART, we’re honored to serve a global community of over 280,000 artists, visionaries, and cultural workers who carry that legacy forward. From Pak’s ever-evolving Web3 experiment, Burn (Burn.art), to Shantell Martin’s iconic black-and-white paintings that blur the line between drawing and language (ShantellMartin.art); from ChefHe.art’s AI-powered spice blends that turn cooking into multi-sensory storytelling, to Emmy Award-winning animator Jason Carpenter’s (JasonCarpenter.art) sweeping visual work across film, stage, and screen—this is what art looks like in 2025. It has no boundaries, it’s embodied, and deeply personal. It’s everything.

Art is protest and prayer. It’s an archive of the past and a vision for what’s next. It’s what keeps us tethered to each other when language fails or fractures.

A Community that Spans Borders and Mediums

The .ART community is made up of painters, sculptors, dancers, poets, coders, tattooists, digital creators, and people who don’t quite fit a label—except “artist.” And that’s more than enough.

We don’t all work the same way. But we ask the same questions:
What do we value?
What are we afraid of?
How do we keep going?

The answers live in our work. In color and silence, in glitch and grain, in laughter and tension.

Honoring Art’s Role in Healing

This World Art Day, we also celebrate the artists whose practice extends beyond galleries and into clinics, community centers, and classrooms. Through our Healing Power of Art initiative, .ART is proud to support two annual fellowships at The George Washington University for emerging art therapists—artists who bring their skill and empathy into therapeutic spaces to help others find language through creation.

To honor this work, we’re hosting a free live webinar on April 17:
Healing Power of Art: When Art Becomes Medicine with speakers from GWU, NYU, and Drexel University, as well as two current student fellows. This hour-long conversation will explore how creative practice becomes a vehicle for care, for others and for ourselves.

Register here to join the conversation.

Today Is for You

World Art Day is not a holiday marked by fireworks or parades. But maybe it should be.

Because every day, across continents and languages, artists are doing the quiet, extraordinary work of helping us make sense of the world. They illuminate what matters. They remind us who we are.

So to our entire .ART community—and to artists everywhere:
Thank you. For what you make. For what you carry. For what you give. The world needs you. And today, we celebrate you.